California
The city of Los Angeles has been trying to crack down on copper wire theft, including businesses that might be reselling it.
Sept. 18, 2024
LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton said eight East Valley recyclers had been fined and arrests made for copper wire theft.
Aug. 27, 2024
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Aug. 22, 2024
The Los Angeles City Council will devote an additional $200,000 to cracking down on copper wire and telecommunications cable theft that has caused neighborhoods to go without street lightning or internet service.
Aug. 9, 2024
Council members lauded the copper wire task force for its efforts to curtail thefts that have left neighborhoods without street lighting or internet service.
July 30, 2024
As a city agency struggles to address streetlight repairs across Los Angeles, neighbors in Pico-Union have been left in the dark for months.
July 12, 2024
The 6th Street Viaduct’s 10 pairs of arches are not lit due to copper theft of the wiring that powers the LEDs on the bridge that connects downtown L.A. to the Eastside.
June 13, 2024
The newsboy who was part of the Harrison Gray Otis monument gone except for two bronze shoes, one intact and the other mangled.
April 12, 2024
World & Nation
Federal judges rejected an Apache religious challenge to the construction of the massive Resolution Copper mine on sacred land at Oak Flat in Arizona.
March 2, 2024
The 6th Street Bridge, known as the “Ribbon of Light,” has partly gone dark because of copper wire thieves.
Dec. 21, 2023